Lives his final months in the Vielle Ville of Geneva. On 26 April 1986 marries María Kodama through a proxy in Colonia Rojas Silva, Paraguay. Death 14 June 1986 in Geneva; burial in the Plainpalais Cemetery, near the tombs of Jean Calvin, Jean Piaget and Alberto Ginastera.

Locations

Borges visits Italy, Santa Barbara, Spain, and Geneva.

Historical Context

President Alfonsín implements an economic stabilization program (“Plan Austral”).

Books

Textos cautivos. Barcelona and Buenos Aires: Tusquets Editores, 1986. 338 pp. [Edited by Enrique Sacerio-Garí and Emir Rodríguez Monegal, a selection of the majority of the texts Borges published in El Hogar. Those omitted were later collected in Borges en El Hogar.]